{"id":1537191,"date":"2025-05-21T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1537191"},"modified":"2025-05-21T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:05:00","slug":"trump-unveils-175-billion-plan-for-golden-dome-missile-defense-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/trump-unveils-175-billion-plan-for-golden-dome-missile-defense-system\/1537191\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Unveils $175 Billion Plan For “Golden Dome” Missile Defense System"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Unveils $175 Billion Plan For “Golden Dome” Missile Defense System<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Ryan Morgan of Epoch Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Department of Defense has selected a design for President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cGolden Dome\u201d missile defense initiative, Trump announced on May 20.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n

In his first week in office, Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Defense to devise a plan to implement his missile defense proposal.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt should be fully operational before the end of my term. So we’ll have it done in about three years,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n

Trump said the plan the Department of Defense has selected should cost about $175 billion to complete.<\/p>\n

The plan will meld new technologies with existing U.S. missile defense systems.<\/p>\n

Canada may also partner with the United States to help develop the improved missile defense shield, the president said. \u201cCanada wants to be a part of it, which would be a fairly small expansion, but we’ll work with them on pricing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to new and improved space-based sensors and interceptors, Trump\u2019s January executive order called for the Department of Defense to consider non-kinetic missile interception technologies such as lasers.<\/p>\n

The order also tasked the department with examining methods and technologies for intercepting missile threats before they can launch, or in their initial boost phase.<\/p>\n

Standing beside Trump during the Oval Office announcement, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth noted the parallels between Trump\u2019s missile defense proposal and the Strategic Defense Initiative put forth by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Reagan\u2019s Strategic Defense Initiative included a number of aspirational missile defense concepts, and some critics referred to it as Reagan\u2019s \u201cStar Wars\u201d proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Reagan, 40 years ago, cast the vision for it. The technology wasn\u2019t there. Now it is, and you\u2019re following through,\u201d Hegseth told the president.<\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans have put forth a $150 billion supplemental military spending package, with about $25 billion set aside to kickstart the Golden Dome project. The $150 billion defense spending plan is one piece of a larger bill that Trump and his allies are hoping to pass through the reconciliation process, avoiding a potential Senate filibuster.<\/p>\n

Trump expressed confidence that the reconciliation bill will pass.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve already spoken to everybody that we have to speak to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s in line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adding to his Golden Dome announcement on Tuesday, Trump named Gen. Michael Guetlein, vice chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force, as the program manager for the project.<\/p>\n

Trump said Guetlein is \u201cone of the most respected people in the world, having to do with defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 05\/20\/2025 – 20:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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